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XX. Disitiption of anew Species of Psidium. By. A. B: uk. 
bert, Esq. F.R.S. V.P.L.S. : 
Read November 17, 1812. - 
I szo leave to adr to the Bezieher. an acc a figure of a 
new species of Psidium which has ripened its fruit in my stove at 
Boyton this summer. The late celebrated Dr. Anderson of St. 
Vincent’s, in his Catalogue of the Plants growing in the Botanical 
Garden of that Island, has named it Psidium polycarpon ; and in 
a manuscript of his, in my possession, I find the following descrip- 
{ tion. x pater VERUM E ee d T x " id 
Psınıum POLYCARPON. 
TAB. XVII. 
Psidium foliis ovato-oblongis acutis subcrenatis, suprà pubes-. 
centibus ; subtüs rugosis scabris, pedunculis trifloris, ramis. 
reclinatis. | 
Frutex vix tripedalis, ramosus. Rati elongati, graciles, reclinati. 
Folia ovalia seu ovato-oblonga, breviüs petiolata. Pedunculi 
axillares solitarii, interdum gemini, sericeo-tomentosi, apice 
dichotomi, 3- flori. Flos intermedius sessilis ; laterales pie 
cellati. ro subrotunda, pure, peus 
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This i$. a ve eel siab, nearly Dei feet high, divided into: 
a few long straggling branches, the lower ones lying on the | 
ground, the upper bending toward: it. The Toug en are round 
ns | and. 
